“That’s what he always talked about. He talked about jihad.”
Two weeks ago, Freedom Center Investigates ran a blockbuster story exposing the troubling background of Adam Hamawy. a New Jersey congressional candidate, who had testified at the Blind Sheikh’s trial.
In 1995, ‘Adam’ Hisham Hamawy testified for the defense in the trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman: the Egyptian Islamic terror leader linked to the World Trade Center bombing. Now, Hamawy is running for Congress in New Jersey while promising to defund the military, abolish ICE, and dismantle the Department of Homeland Security.
The Sheikh’s supporters carried out terrorist attacks across Egypt. Others were responsible for the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and Rahman was finally convicted of taking part in “a war of urban terrorism against the United States” that targeted the Statue of Liberty and other New York City landmarks. His supporters were caught preparing bombs and at Rahman’s trial, testimony was introduced about Rahman urging an informant to assassinate Egypt’s president.
Sheikh Rahman, who had demanded a van because there would be six passengers on the trip. Hamawy, apparently sitting behind Rahman, was only one of four others invited to go along.
I reached out to Hamawy, but got no response. His campaign lashed out at us, claiming that we were ‘anti-Islam’ and engaged in “guilt-by-association”.
Hamawy’s campaign pointed out that the initial story was written in FrontPage Magazine, a website affiliated with the anti-Islam David Horowitz Freedom Center, and called it “guilt-by-association attacks on Muslim and Arab candidates.”
But Hamawy’s history with the terrorist leader shows it’s a lot more than just ‘association’.
The Free Beacon picked up the story and got hold of the trial transcript which described Hamawy and the Blind Sheikh’s relationship in more depth.
The story has since been picked up by Fox News, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, and local media.
Hamawy and Abdel-Rahman met in 1991 when the Islamist firebrand delivered a lecture at Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School in Cliffwood, N.J. From there, the Egyptian-born Hamawy said, he followed the Blind Sheikh to speaking events at mosques, visited the cleric in his home, and provided him with translation help.
During his testimony, which Hamawy began with a traditional “salam alaykum” greeting to the Blind Sheikh, he described taking a 13-hour car journey with Abdel-Rahman and some of his associates to a conference in Detroit called “Towards a Global Islamic Economy.” Those associates were Sheikh Abdel Khalid “from the Salam Mosque” in Jersey City, referred to in the court records as a “jihad office.” That mosque, where Abdel-Rahman preached, was the location where the conspirators behind the World Trade Center bombing would meet.
When prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald asked Hamawy whether Abdel-Rahman talked “about conquering the land of the infidels” during the event, Hamawy said, “He might have, yes,” adding that “it wasn’t a commerce thing.”
Hamawy told Fitzgerald that he heard the word “jihad” more than once that weekend.
Several other speakers at the conference were well-known figures in the world of Islamist terrorism. After Abdel-Rahman spoke, attendees heard from Dr. Ahmad Nofal, a Holocaust denier who has falsely accused Israelis of harvesting the organs of Palestinians. A 1995 PBS documentary called Jihad in America describes Nofal as “a known recruiter of Hamas terrorists.”
In his testimony, Hamawy told Fitzgerald that he had heard Abdel-Rahman speak about how the United States and Israel are “the enem[ies] of Islam.” When Fitzgerald asked whether Hamawy heard “about how Muslims had to do jihad against the enemies of Islam,” Hamawy responded, “Of course. That’s what [Abdel-Rahman] always talked about. He talked about jihad, you know?”
A number of figures involving in the trial have since come forward including Michael Mukasey, Patrick Fitzgerald and Andrew McCarthy to discuss their experiences.
Local media eventually got to Hamawy and forced him to go on the record, at which point he kept going on about his patriotism and played the victim, claiming that, as a Muslim, they’re always going to find something to attack.”
Adam Hamawy, now a plastic surgeon in Princeton, dismissed questions about Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheikh who played a key role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, calling Abdel-Rahman “a blind old man” and a “well-known person in the community” who only talked about “innocuous things.”
When another reporter asked about whether Hamawy would condemn the sheikh—or the concept of “jihad”—Hamawy laughed.
“Any extremism [of] any kind is bad,” he said, referring to his service as a military doctor. “I’m against all war and all violence.”
He refused to specifically condemn the sheikh or Islamic jihad, instead saying, “I condemn all extremism and all violence of any kind.”
Hamawy told another story under oath at the Blind Sheikh’s trial.
Fitzgerald: “Did you hear defendant Abdel-Rahman prior to the arrest talk with about how America is the enemy of Islam?”
Hamawy: “Yes.”
Fitzgerald: “And you heard prior to the arrest about how Israel is the enemy of Islam, correct?”
Hamawy: “Yes.”
Fitzgerald: “Did you hear about how Muslims had to do jihad against the enemies of Islam before the arrests in June 1993?”
Hamawy: “Of course. That’s what he always talked about. He talked about jihad, you know.”
So much for that. The mainstreaming of jihad is now up against another test.
Wellington says
Anti-Islam? Count me in. How can anyone not be anti-Islam if they want such things as liberty, equality under the law, women’s rights and, last but not necessarily least, good beer and delicious pork products?
Accusing yours truly of being anti-Islam is of no more significance to this beer drinker and bacon consumer than accusing me of being anti-Marxism or anti-Nazism. Time for a Yuengling on this Sunday afternoon.
abu taleb says
Any decent person should be anti Islam
Tim gallagher says
Yes, any decent person who knew how evil islam is would definitely be anti Islam. Unfortunately, a lot of decent people know nothing about. I know quite a few of them. It is not hard to find out about islam so their slackness, their laziness, when it comes to islam, annoys me. Islam will destroy any country if it is given the opportunity to do so.
somehistory says
Tim, I watched a Twilight Zone this afternoon. The one with William Shatner riding on a plane and he sees a creature on the wing. He kept trying to get others to see it….”There’s a man out there.” He saw the creature trying to disable the plane engine, and he tried again to warn his wife, the stewardess and even one of the pilots.
No one believed him, but they all thought that he was having a mental issue and took him to a hospital.
Rather fits what we see actually happening when we try to tell others about islam.
Tim gallagher says
Yeah, it’s strange how long it is taking so many people to wake up Islam’s evil nature, somehistory, although I think a lot of people seem to be waking up in Australia because the one nation political party won an election on the weekend and that party has a strong anti Islam stance. It took me quite a few years to learn bout Islam but I woke up 30 years ago. Many people refuse to face reality. As I said, I find it annoying and I think it is laziness. They know nothing about islam. I hope you are going ok.
gravenimage says
Grimly apt comparison, Somehistory,
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! Frontpage should just own it
somehistory says
muzzies don’t like Truth.
NJ…seems to be chock-full of muzzies who get by with a lot of going against the laws of the U.S. and the society the public looks to for protection. LE is the enemy of lawbreakers….illegals, terrorists, domestic violence perps, etc.
So, of course, this muzzie is planning to do what he can to demolish LE in all of its forms.
I recall years ago when c. christi defended the muzzie ‘judge’ and railed in foul speech against the people concerned with what muzzies planned for everyone else.
And the judge in NJ who was letting a muzzie beat and sexually assault (she called it rape) his wife because it was part of his “culture.”
Keep telling the Truth. It is appreciated by those who value Truth.
Wellington says
South Jersey, somehistory, is still OK, actually for the most part quite patriotic and Trump country (six of its eight counties went for Trump in 2024) as is northwestern NJ (five of its seven counties went for 47 two years ago). The problem, and it’s a huge one, is northeastern NJ which is replete with Leftists and an ever increasing amount of Buttlims and, unfortunately, the most populous part of the state.
The worst combo in modern day America, bar none, is the Left + Mohammedans (I don’t think we’ll have any disagreement here). Northeast NJ is more than culpable in this regard; it’s a wasteland of liberals, including very rich but foolish folks, and followers of a religion which will use American freedoms to the max in order to destroy American freedoms to the max.
I like New Jersey very much. It has many wonderful and beautiful places (extra ugly ones too) but it has been badly served in recent times by both Democrats (e.g., Corey Booker) and RINOs (Chris Christie).
I’ll close here by noting that South Jersey has traditionally been so sick of North Jersey dominating the state that there have been several initiatives to create South Jersey as a separate state, which is definitely allowed by the Constitution and happened with Maine breaking away from Massachusetts in 1820, but the chances of this are very poor. What a damn shame because a South Jersey as a separate state would be very much a conservative state. And sorry for going on so long, but Jersey deserves better than it has gotten over the past half century and I for one am sad about this.
somehistory says
Thank you, Wellinton, for the information. I traveled to NJ one time and it was merely because of a flight to NY (I never understood why that was necessary) so all I know of the place is what I have read or heard from others.
I believe Franki Valli and the other “seasons” were Jersey Boys and I’ve heard of the “Jersey Shore.” And Eddie Rabbit, I believe, though he shopped where I worked in Texas. I enjoy their music still.
So, thank you for giving me more about the lay of the land. islam and those who support it make good people suffer.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wellington
You overlooked Central Jersey – the Trenton-Princeton area, which is as Leftist as Newark and Camden
somehistory says
And being “anti-islam” is a good thing. A really good thing. It’s anti-vileness, anti-cruelty, anti-evil.
rubiconcrest says
It is great to hear that other news outlets picked up the story and are not afraid to do some serious background checking on Dr. Adam Hamawy.
He could easily address jihad directly. Avoiding and denying Islam’s and jihad and specifically downplaying the blind sheikh’s extremism makes him unqualified.
PATRIOT64 says
The Garden State has enough problems they don’t need these terrorist supporters representing in them in any political office.
JS says
He’s running for Congress? A Muslim plastic surgeon who shouldn’t even be in the U.S. and Trump does nothing again… The government and Trump need to get him and Momdani OUT. So sick of this.
gravenimage says
Congressional Candidate Attacks Front Page as ‘Anti-Islam’ After It Exposes His Jihad Terror Ties
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If Adam Hamawy has Jihad terror ties he should lose his US citizenshio and be deported.